• Nigel Farage faces EU investigation over undeclared money
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Nigel Farage is facing an investigation by the EU after allegedly failing to declare a £450,000 payment from Leave.EU founder Arron Banks. Earlier this week it was claimed the Brexit Party leader was bought a chauffeur-driven car, and had his rent and bills on a £4.4m Chelsea home paid for by Mr Banks. Mr Banks also allegedly paid for Farage's lavish tours of the US, during which he met with right wing political figures.  But according to the Independent, none of the gifts were declared on Farage's register of interests - a record designed to stop MEPs keeping their conflicts of interests secret. MSN Had to edit the title a bit since it's too long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bypLwI5AQvY&t=2s he should tell them they have the personality of a damp rag that always works
My mother still believes this person is representative of the working class, and that he understands their plight. My god.
He wants Britain to return to a private insurance healthcare model but people are either ignorant of this or don't care.
I brought this up yesterday (it's worth noting my mother has been an active user & supporter of the NHS) and her stance suddenly switched to, "Yes, well, maybe we should have a system like that. It would encourage people to be less irresponsible." It's amazing, albeit also terrifying, to watch people abandon principles rather than criticise their political Messiah.
I hope they ban him from politics entirely.
That is a little bit scary. Does she not realise the absoloute state american healthcare is in?
Does she know that Arron Banks is worth hundreds of millions? Not that Farage will admit to where his money comes from. Channel 4 tried asking him if he was still being bankrolled by Banks (haha!) and he wouldn't respond, though there was a huge crack in his composure when he was accused of being financed by very rich friends and the only thing he could say was a sarcastic "Terrible isn't it?" https://twitter.com/Hayley_Barlow/status/1129053733751595009 Another source from the BBC where Banks admits all this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48315552
the fact she deflects it straight to the "irresponsible" is pretty terrifying. You should show her a receipt for cancer care from the US, people think that privatised healthcare means paying a tenner to see your GP.
It's genuinely shocking just how easy it seems to be to manipulate less politically active working class populations into voting against their interests. All you really need to do is insist that "THE DOLE SCUM!!" are taking all the benefit money (that a fair few working class families are reliant on themselves) to get them to fuck over the welfare system. Or that "THE MUZZIES!!!" are taking all the council tax for their mosques (lets not tell them about the Church taking some of that funding too though) so they can justify stopping public works projects. Or that "THE FUCKING DEGENERATES" are wasting NHS money by having all that unprotected sex (but lets not recall your youths, where underage pregnancy was more rampant and dangerous, and sexual health was barely even a thing). I'm thankful that despite my working class background I actually bothered to get somewhat politically involved. But it does make me despair for the people that just don't give a rats arse.
Imagine being Nigel Farage and lecturing other people on their lack of charisma.
They don't care. They think it's a good thing because are nige says so. The UK is populated by literal morons.
I showed her a picture of a receipt for a liver transplant (I think it exceeded 100k) and immediately it was met with scoffing and the usual "well, it's not all like that." It's a curious thing, as she was once almost bordering on the periphery of being labelled some sandal-wearing hippie that spouted rants about vegetarianism, anti-war and inequality in the establishment, but because Nigel Farage appeals to the single-issue (Brexit) and is viewed by her as charismatic, she drops everything and affirms herself as a keen member of Team Nigel. There's a signed (by Farage) UKIP rally sign in our house, which makes me glad we don't get many visitors. It's a strange dynamic, one that not even she can properly explain without resorting to labelling me, the only source of criticism in the household, as some SJW politically correct are-you-really-gay-or-is-it-some-kind-of-ploy-for-attention leftist (despite me not currently being semantically leftist).
Reminds me of this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmOhTP9XIAASg9h.jpg The entire world is fucked, completely and utterly. People like these have actual, real power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvJeATp31dw
Is this a common phenomenon, of previously left-leaning political views going to the right, or far right? My dad spent 30 years as a paramedic in the NHS and was a fairly staunch Labour voter, but after retirement he became much more conservative, at once point voting UKIP. He becomes apoplectic at the mention of Brexit, and seems convinced removal of immigrants will solve all the UK's woes. Trying to have "discussions" with him results in the same whataboutism and ad hominem. Have there been any studies on this? Does getting old just make one more conservative?
Things are very wrong in the Brexit Party's electoral law practices leading up to this election. Dirty money, the donation system on their website not gathering the required data or conforming to the rules, and now disturbingly, Brexit Party media has been slipped into postal ballots in at least one returning area: https://twitter.com/thehistoryguy/status/1130109047569637376 I really have no idea how they aren't having their entire candidacy suspended pending investigation. I think the Electoral Commission might be completely broken at this point. However, Jolyon Maugham, a well known QC, has caught onto this case and hopefully it'll be brought up with the highest possible authority. It just seems too brazen, as if Farage's lot know they are immune to prosecution for some reason.
Being anti-immigration kind of requires a rigid interpretation of what a nation's culture is and is not, and it seems like it would be easiest to form that kind of interpretation if you've had a lot of time to familiarize yourself with certain things and ignore other things until somebody convinces you that they're actually this huge deal that came out of nowhere.
Easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled
This makes me embarrassed even though he doesn't represent my constituency.
The Daily Mail and the rest of the right-wing propaganda machine have spent the last couple decades trying to convince anyone who will listen, almost all pensioners with nothing to do all day but listen to TV, that the world is a terrifying place and their way of life is under imminent threat from The Other. Repeat it persistently enough and you take a man who was enthusiastic and accomplished and turn him into a shut-in so paranoid and afraid from media tampering that he's afraid of going outside for fear of islamic-trained attack foxes leaping from the bushes to rip out the throats of good (white) British-born people. Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger. — Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials https://semipartisansam.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/brexit-daily-express-headlines-immigration.jpg Those who do not study history are doomed to be manipulated by those who did.
seems like lack of being immersed in the society is one problem, older folks especially in america are increasingly moving to like minded hives like The Villages in the middle of florida where even the most extreme right wing opinions are met with warm embrace. Another thing that might be true in your father's case is just exposure to the poorest elements of society made him jaded against them. My dad worked like 2 years in the inner city when the great recession hit, spent 15 years building stores in detroit before that and don't get him started on The Blacks and the democrat corruption, even though detroit has made an enormous turnaround, one which he hasn't been there to see and The Blacks, have been experiencing basically the great recession their entire lives, but by golly he's right because he's seen it with his own two eyes!
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